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Springbrook Cabin

Artist Pansy Stockton (American, 1895 - 1972)

Date1938

Mediumorganic collage

Dimensions10 × 14 inches (25.4 × 35.6 cm)
Frame: 12 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 3/4 inches (31.8 × 41.9 × 1.9 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.33.13

ClassificationsCollages

DescriptionSun painting; cabin set in mountain and trees

Label Text“Springbrook Cabin” depicts the home where Pansy and her first husband Roscoe Kenneth Stockton honeymooned and began their married life. This log cabin in the Rocky Mountains also inspired her art. The artist called it the “birthplace of sun paintings,” her term for organic collages. For these works, she did not use traditional oil paints or watercolors. Instead, she made collages from organic materials, such as leaves, bark, moss, and other natural items. She said that the sun created the colors of her materials. She felt that when she completed her works, they looked like paintings.

ProvenancePansy Stockton [1895-1972]; purchased September 28, 1957 by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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